I am not a mega fat, but I sometimes eat fast food too much. I managed to stop again so my weight will go back down quickly. I know it's a lame but sometimes I will get agitated and while driving it's easy to redirect that focus on your hunger and then satiate it with food, and driving means fast food I drive alot for work. Any ways I already put on a lot of weight so it'll be about 6 months to go back to a healthy weight. It's hard because food is a drug, you consume it and the chemicals in your body release endorphins to reward you and train your neurons for finding food. But it's so easy to throw that out of whack as a human when you have basically unlimited access to food in the world. Even African children are 70 quadrillion times less likely to starve to death compared to some shitty non humanoid animal. It's difficult in some ways because unlike quitting other habits like smoking, or some other behavior, you can't just stop eating completely; to remove yourself from the element of it entirely. Like you would rather get rid of all niggers who live around you, not just let a few in selectively. I have fluctuations in weigh from my behavior swings frequently, and I was taught how to eat well.
I was a very normal weight until highschool where I started gaining weight until senior year where I think I was 5'11 and 235 lbs. Then I was 250 and 6ft when I was 21 and then I brought it back down to 200 until about six months ago and now I have put on like 40 pounds. I know I can lose it quickly again but I don't know why I keep pulling myself into this pattern. Maybe this time I can stop. I like to browse this sub and appreciate the fitness forums shitting on fatties. I fucking hate this stupid nonsense about being healthy when you weigh 500lbs and sleep with a CPAP and have diabetus. There is a fucking diabetes supply shop in my town, in fact a few I shit you not. There's enough fats here for there to be fucking specialty diabetes shops. And it's gross.
Sometimes, I go to Walmart to buy something for cheap. I know I shouldn't but I do it anyways because you can only live for so long and I already wasted enough time writing this post, so I don't worry it. The people I see there are fucking fats like I could walk through there with a camera and have enough content for this whole sub to last month and it's really gross. And yeah it fat city. I will be ready for the next season of summer.
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[–] thin_privilege 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Fun fact: there's hardly any sugar in fastfood if you don't take their softdrinks in consideration. It's not like huge burgers with buns and mayo don't contain an overabundance of needless calories.
[–] PleaseDontEatMe 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
A quick Google search tells me that there is 6g of added sugar in an average fast food burger. That is still roughly 1/4 and 1/6 of the recommended daily added sugar intake for women and men respectively. 6g of sugar in a burger may sound like 'hardly any sugar', but when your RDI is only 25g and 37.5g for women and men respectively, then it brings into perspective how much is actually added that doesn't need to be there. It may not count for much in terms of calories, but sugar in and of itself is something that needs to be taken in careful moderation. As a society we are being bombarded with stupid amounts of it that our bodies cannot effectively metabolise after a certain point, and the fact that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease affects 25% of Americans is proof of the damage being done by sugar to the body. The fact that there is added sugar at all in a burger is the problem, not the fact that it adds a few extra calories, and considering one of the main reasons sugar is added into foods is because of the addictive nature of it... well, it really just speaks for itself.
Of course, I'm not using sugar as an excuse here for people being fat, nor am I saying that eating sugar in moderation is going to be bad for you, because it's not. It only becomes a problem when it becomes over-consumed. If anything it just further shows how addicted fats are to sugar. From what I have read/heard from people who help others with overcoming sugar addiction, some people literally have to go cold turkey on eating sugar because they cannot control themselves. Like how alcoholics can't drink alcohol after getting clean because the temptation is too strong.
Sorry for the bombardment of information there ^,^" I just read/listen to a lot of nutritional health stuff and I think it's important to put things like that into perspective. :D
[–] LordoftheBeetus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The only thing that makes you get fat is too many calories. If you eat a reasonable amount of calories and a fairly varied diet, it is unlikely that you are eating enough sugar to make much of a difference. The issue comes when you eat a diet that is mostly carbs which break down into sugar or, as with 99.99999% of people, you eat too damn much of it. Get in your daily vegetables and protein and you can't possible go over the sugar limit because you won't have the calories left to do it.
Basically it comes down to taking fucking responsibility for yourself and what you put in your body. No one forced you to eat shitty food, you decide to do it. You have no one to blame but yourself if it makes you unhealthy.
[–] thin_privilege 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah that's probably right, the contents don't have sugar in them but they add sugar since people want sweet food.
Sugar is not addictive though. People do like sugar, just like most mammals like sugar, since it provides energy. Something we needed a long time ago running from mammoths and huge tigers. Alcohol addiction is completely different and I don't get why people always compare eating too goddamn much with substance addiction.
[–] JelDeRebel 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
and hfcs, the cornerstone of american food, is even worse than sugar
High-fructose corn syrup causes characteristics of obesity in rats: increased body weight, body fat and triglyceride levels https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3522469/